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Maris POV

"Are we going now?"

"Yes, Cynthia."

"How about the teachers?" We all turned to look at Janet who is now the former head girl,

She shrugged" well I guess we would see if the new head girl is capable"

"Whose car are we using?" Lami blinked fast

"None, public transportation" Jason replied

"Common, can't we order like an Uber or something?" She asked stomping her feet in frustration

"No, we can't your highness. Can we go now?" Cynthia replied while bowing to her

"Okay"

We walked to the gate majestically, there were no teachers in sight and we have our seniors with us, so the gateman didn't even stop us. We greeted him and went to the main gate.
We boarded a bus to King Estate, the security guys saw that they were with me and let us in. We trekked to my block, which is quite far. 

I wondered what everyone was thinking, were they thinking about Elle's disappearance? 

Who is the mad man that kidnappers students in school sha! shey na ment?

"Omo! We never reach?" Lami asked, fanning her face with her hands interrupting my thoughts

"No," I told her, everybody sighed 

"We are here!" I announced after we stopped at a big black gate.

"Thank God" Cynthia mumbled

I knocked on the gate, Nilo opened the gate and stared at everyone,

"They are my and Elle's friends from school" I introduced


"I know, I no blind" 


"Ehn open gate na"


"Wey second madam?" He scanned us again, looking outside


"She dey school, open this gate" I lied easily

"Come, why una plenty like this? School never close na abi una dey go somewhere?"

"Nilo !! Open this gate na, which kain questions be this"

"Calm down, no dey shout for me" he opened the gate slowly, I pushed my way inside with force

"You have a beautiful house" Cynthia complemented, staring at the big duplex in front of her.

She's the only one that hasn't been to my house. The rest were used to it

"Thank you, don't mind that man. Let's go in" we went inside, I took them to Elle's room.

"Did you receive any package?" Jason asked, grabbing the chair to sit. Everybody found somewhere comfortable to sit,

"I did, but I haven't opened it"

"Why do you think there's a clue in the package?" Janet asked Jason bouncing on the bed.

 

Jason is the one leading this operation so all questions were directed to him.

" When Elle was handing us this package, she specifically told us not to open it till she's gone, that was her words before she added 'graduating, University and not seeing ourselves again. So I think she knew she was still going to be kidnapped and she was prepared" he explained

"Here" I stretched it to him

"Open it na. This is yours, open it, let's see what it contains" he gave it back to me like he was rejecting it or scared of opening it.

I tore the Wrapping paper easily, there was a box, I opened it and poured out the content on the floor, it was paper. Looks like a letter, I shared eye contact with everyone in the room, and when I clocked my eyes with jimmy, he said:" Read it na!"

I unfolded it and cleared my throat,
...

"Yo! Hey Rat"

Madam read it out" Craig reminded me.

I cleared my throat again and began reading to everyone's hearing

"Yo! Hey Rat!
If you're already reading this, two things must have happened.
1, either it's my funeral already or
2, I'm in my final year at University.

I know you, your mind would never reach here but if you're reading this without any of those 2 things above in motion, then I guess my friends are with you and you know the truth.

I never said this but I'll always love you, even though you're an elephant or a rat. You're my sister and I can't do anything about it, I just have to accept you the way you are.


Remember the things we did as kids, this was our favourite, writing letters to each other even though we shared the same room. I missed this, it hurts that the first letter I'm writing to you after a year is a letter of me saying goodbye. You could write back, my spirit can reply to you.

Look out for your friends in school. The structure isn't all that matters

I'll always love you, take care of our Parents.

Love, Big Sister"

I sniffed, cleaning the tears that rolled down. "That's all"


"There's no clue," Amarachi said

"I wonder what our letters would contain, goodbye messages like this?" Lami asked laying on the bed in a comfortable sleeping position. I knew what was coming next, Sleep.

Jason took the letter from me and read it over and over again.

"Bruh you could read that thing till tomorrow, there's still no clue. I don't think we have any clue in our letters too" Jayden said, sorting out the papers littered

"What do you mean?" Jimmy stared at him squinting his eyes at him

"I've read through my package and it's similar to what she read out"

Jason stood up, pacing to and fro. This happened for about 5 minutes, those 5 minutes were 5 minutes of silence, Cynthia joined Lami In sleeping; Craig and Jimmy were going through their phones; Janet lay still facing the ceiling; Amarachi had her eyes shut but I don't think she's was asleep; Jayden kept staring at the window; Tina had her head on my shoulder.

Jason suddenly asked a question that made me smile" wait, you guys wrote letters when you were growing up?" it caught the attention of those who weren't busy-Janet, Jayden, Tina.

"Yeah, we did. It was something we loved. We talked about everything, things we thought our parents weren't doing right, Cousins we don't like, Uncles and Aunties who were mean to us. Kids, we felt like beating up" I chuckled, remembering those memories.

"You know the fun part?" I smiled

"No" Janet whispered

"We were the only ones that understood what we wrote because no one else could see or read it"

something clicked in me, omg

"Wait, what do you mean?" Jason asked anxiously, 

I hurriedly stood up and ran to the kitchen, "Maris!" Jason called after me, I think he woke up Cynthia and Lami

"What happened?" Jimmy asked, taking his eyes off his phone while Craig did the same

"Ermm, I don't know, we were talking and she mentioned something. I think something clicked, I think she remembered something" Jason explained

Cynthia and Lami yawned and stretched. "What did we miss?"

"Were you two seriously sleeping?" Craig asked in bewilderment,

"Were you seriously playing a game?" Tina threw at him, eyeing Jimmy.

"We were tired, omo this girl house far oh. " Cynthia answered

 

"No, be lie, any time we are coming to her house. We always come in the car, so the distance ehnn. I didn't measure it well" Lami added

I came back panting. "What happened? Where did you go?" Jason asked with concern and hope in his eyes

"I went to get this," I showed them what was in my hands, grinning widely

"What are you doing with a lighter for god's sake?" Cynthia asked still yawning

I took the letter from Jason, "Well while growing up, we wrote letters that other people couldn't read or see using a candle and the only way to read this was to use fire" I lit the lighter and scanned through the letter with it, reaching the bottom of the letter, some new figures and words appeared.

"OMG!!" Cynthia and Lami squealed, "we did it!!!" They hugged each other closely

"You guys didn't do shii" Tina fired at them "what does it say?"

Girl got Zero chills, I smiled at her


It says "Send a Fire and love emoji. Fire first, then after 2 minutes send a Love emoji.
0807052126605"

"That's the number to send it to!" Tina said

"Is that a code or what?"Amarachi took the letter from me, reading through it.

"Yeah, I'll send it. WhatsApp or Message app?" Jayden asked, texting the number into his phone.

"WhatsApp" Tina replied

We sent the Fire🔥 emoji to the number on WhatsApp, then after impatiently waiting for 2 minutes, we sent the Love❤ emoji.

"What do you think is going to happen next?" Lami asked staring at the empty street through the window.


"We don't know" Jimmy replied

 

"Maybe this person is going to send us clues or something" Cynthia reasoned

"Who is this person?" Cynthia turned to Amarachi, "Good question though!"


I smiled, at least there's a new lead, " a trusted person" I replied to everyone who asked that question in their mind.

" I don't think this person is going to reply. This number has been offline since last week" Jason said groaning.

"Dead end!"

"Hmm. What are you going to do about your parents?" Tina asked with concern, she came to me grabbing my hands

"The school is going to call your parents-"

"Are they not responsible? She was kidnapped at the school!! Why would the security allow a kidnapper to be on the school premises?!!" I threw my questions in the air, sitting angrily

"Except, the kidnapper is the school," Tina said, rubbing my hands softly

"Well, if they tell my parents. My parents would be calling the police on the school" I said, leaning to her touch


"I think we should go. You don't have to return to school" Janet said coming to hug me " stay strong" she whispered in my ear

They hugged me one after the other, "we would find her" Tina whispered to me.

"I think we should create a group, I'll let you know when the person replies" Jason suggested, picking up his bag and Tina's.


"Should we be in school tomorrow?" Cynthia asked, grabbing her bag


"Yes but get ready to leave at any time. I don't think you would be in school tomorrow, Maris. The news should have reached your parents. We would be here tomorrow" Janet said hugging me again, I hugged her back dearly.

 


"Thank you" I whispered

I saw them off to the gate, "ah! Journey to Jerusalem" Lami complained

"Let's go" Janet dragged her. I waved at them

"Wey small madam?" Nilo asked dragging me inside,


"She dey my head. She dey school jhare" I lied again

"Okay, why you come back early? "

"I don't have time for these questions" I left him standing,

"Heyss! " he tried calling me. "All these small girls sha" I heard him say.

I went inside, waiting for my parents to come back. I looked at the big analogue clock, they would soon be back. I did some chores to get my mind off Elle but I couldn't.

Has she eaten? 

Is she in a good place? 

Is she being treated nicely?

I heard my parents' car horn at the gate. It wasn't up to a minute, my Mom rushed inside hugging me tightly my Dad showed up immediately hugging me too.

"Where's your sister?" Mom asked still hugging me

"Ermm, Mommy she wasn't in school today," I told her shakily.

"Where did she go?"

"Mommy..." I started shaking

From the corner of my eye, I saw my Dad leave the parlour to pick up his phone.

God please, I don't want to be the one to tell her. I felt tears piling up

"Talk now, where did she go?!" She demanded, shaking me vigorously

"Mommy..."I tried freeing myself from her grip.

"Let her go, Regi"Dad said, wearing the saddest expression I've ever seen. My heart broke.

"Why are you looking like that?"

"Common let's go upstairs" He ushered her towards the stairs

"Did you know Elle didn't go to school? Let me try her number" She picked up her phone and dialled her number but it was switched off. "Her phone is off. Let her come back first, she would tell me when this one started" She complained as she walked the stairs.

It broke again, I cleaned my tears quickly.

My Dad looked at me and went upstairs, I saw the pain in his eyes, two types: The pain of losing Elle and the pain of telling Mom.

I walked past their room and I heard Dad say "Their School called concerning Elle"

"What did they say?"

"They said..."I heard his voice cracking

"Ahah, do you want to cry? Talk now, what did they say?"

"They said she has been kidnapped" He sniffed, 

She stood up quickly causing the chair to make a noise"Ehnn, kidnapped? who? Her classmate or who?" 

I heard him crying, she suddenly shouted throwing herself on the floor, I heard the shattering of glass on the floor. 

Tears flowed out when I whimpered, I quickly covered my mouth not to make a sound, I quietly walked to my room and brawled my eyes out. I slept off with a headache.

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Hmmmmn.

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